March 2010
83 posts
CSVemail →
lessin:
, (view it on drop.io at http://drop.io/swl/asset/csvemail)
February 2010
31 posts
Reporters Hole Up With Just Facebook, Twitter :... →
shaneguiter:
Earlier this month, five French-speaking journalists spent a week in a house in the French countryside. No cell phones, no TV. They could use only Twitter and Facebook in their reporting. Host Liane Hansen speaks to Janic Tremblay of Radio Canada to find out how the experiment turned out.
shaneguiter:
halfbakedidea:
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Ha Jin on writing in English versus Chinese. →
Ha Jin was an English grad student at Brandeis when I was an undergrad there. His advisor was the man who changed my life with poetry, Allen Grossman. Ha Jin is a wonderful writer and I remember him (more than 20 years ago) as a generous and kind man.
mollybierman:
(via volcanoes:stuartinwashington)
English has more flexibility. It’s a very plastic, very shapeable, very expressive...
Was Reagan to the Left of Obama on Torture? |... →
ericrobertsswagger:
“And the idea of trying terrorists in military tribunals as opposed to a civilian court of law? The Reagan administration was completely against that. Paul Bremer (yes, that Paul Bremer) said in 1987, ‘[A] major element of our strategy has been to delegitimize terrorists, to get society to see them for what they are — criminals — and to use democracy’s most potent tool, the...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-21) →
The Cairo Gang (15)
The Arcade Fire (10)
The Morning Benders (1)
David Bowie (1)
Deer Tick (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
un:
(via misterpeace)
Neko Case - “Vengeance Is...
atticinabasement:
slangtang:
Oliver James —...
WatchWatch Over Me on Vimeo (viaOpen’hood)
This would be amazing even if she wasn’t a Highland Hospital housekeeper standing in the hospital waiting room.
Watch What the FBI Showed Him
Last weekend, on February 6, Catherine Walker and I were emailing back and forth about our plans to interview people familiar with the unsolved civil rights murder of her father Clifton Walker 46 years ago. Around mid-afternoon we had a breakthrough; Catherine wrote to tell me about her conversation with the son of a possible eyewitness to the planning of the murder:
I...
fuckyeahthemountaingoats:
liesandstatistics:
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Somerville writer looks for answers in abandoned... →
Since he began investigating abandoned civil rights cases in 2004, Ben Greenberg of Somerville has assumed the role of detective, journalist, photographer, and technologist in an effort to expose perpetrators of southern racial violence in cases long dismissed by law enforcement.
For the past two years, he has collaborated with a team of reporters on the Civil Rights Cold Case Project,...